New Lisbon Junior High/High
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Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 12 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 74% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About New Lisbon Junior High/High
New Lisbon Junior High/High is one of the cozy four-year high schools in New Lisbon, Wisconsin, operated by New Lisbon School District, with 250 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 475 students each, so New Lisbon Junior High/High sits 47% leaner than that benchmark.
New Lisbon Junior High/High is one of 2 schools operated by New Lisbon School District, a district that enrolls 548 students overall.
Looking at the student body, New Lisbon Junior High/High records that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Juneau County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, New Lisbon Junior High/High has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.8:1. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 6% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Juneau County (around 41%), the school's rate is south of typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, New Lisbon Junior High/High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 73.7%; actual is 36.0%, a gap of -37.7 points.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Juneau County put median household earnings sit near $67,270, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Juneau County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,471 students), of which New Lisbon Junior High/High is one.
Nearest neighbor: New Lisbon Elementary, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), New Lisbon Junior High/High ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.2%.
The campus sits in a rural setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at New Lisbon Junior High/High has fell 10%, going from 278 students in 2018 to 250 in 2025.
Inside the community feed, the feed for New Lisbon Junior High/High typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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